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PUBLICATIONS
AND WRITING PROJECTS
2012
Contribution to a review symposium: rev. of Monica Weis, SSJ.
The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton. Foreword
by James Conner, OCSO. Lexington: The University Press of
Kentucky, 2011, forthcoming in The Merton Annual.
2011
“A comment on Keith Hammond, ‘Universities in
opposition to Israel’s military occupation and the de-development
of the West Bank and Gaza.’” Journal of Cultural
and Pedagogical Inquiry, 3.1 (2011), http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/cpi/article/view/11756
“Engaged Encounter,” rev. of
Rowan Williams, A
Silent Action: Engagements with Thomas Merton. Foreword
Jim Forest, afterword Kallistos Ware. Louisville, KY: Fons
Vitae, 2011,
In The Merton Seasonal 36.3 (Fall 2011) 23-25.
“The Compassionate Listening Project,” Topic
(Sept 2011) 4.
Rev. of Barry L. Padgett, Professional Morality and Guilty
Bystanding: Merton's Conjectures and the Value of
Work (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2009), in The Merton Annual, v.23, ed. Gray Matthews
and David Belcastro. Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae, 300-303.
Letter, Guardian Weekly, 6-12 May 2011, 23
Letter, The Globe and Mail, 26 May 2011, A14
“Israel-Palestine: The Pedagogical Challenge,”
with Dave Chang. Journal of Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry.
2.2 (2010) 19-32. ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/cpi/article/view/10197
2010
“On Art,” Christian Century 127.5 (March
9, 2010) 47. Reproduction of “The Holy Man,” a
painting by Velenka Fanderlik, with a caption by Lois Huey-Heck,
much reduced by her editor (the full version is on the home
page of this website).
“Sore feet and a rested soul.” Rev. of Rooster
in the Cathedral, by Paul Myers. Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue,
QC: Shoreline Press, 2009. On Paul Myers’ website, http://www.paulmyers.ca/reviews.htm
Rev. of The Bishop’s Man, by Linden MacIntyre.
Toronto: Random House, 2009. Anglican Journal 136.2
(February 2010) 11.
"Is criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?” Topic
41.1 (January 2010) 7.
"Angli/can or Angli/can't?" Topic 41.6
(Summer) 7.
http://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/portals/0/repository/062010Topicweb.pdf
Letter
(on Omar Khadr), Guardian Weekly (UK), guardian.co.uk/global/2010/nov/16/letters
Interview
on the place of Christmas in our society, with Darcy Wintonyk,
for CTV: http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101214/bc_christmas_dirty_word_
101213/20101214?hub=BritishColumbia
2009
"’Monastic
in his [own] way’: Thomas Merton and Leonard Cohen,”
The Merton Seasonal 34.3 (Fall 2009) 3-9, leonardcohenfiles.com/grayston.pdf
Rev.
of Thomas Merton - In My Own Words, ed. Jonathan
Montaldo, in The Merton Annual, v. 21, ed. David
Belcastro and Gray Matthews (Louisville, KY: Fons Vitae) 281-82.
2008
"In the Footsteps of Thomas Merton: Asia,"
in The Merton Seasonal, ed. Patrick O'Connell (33.4,
Winter 2008) 21-28.
"Week
of a Stranger: Thomas Merton Bibliographic Review 2006,"
in The Merton Annual, v. 20, ed. Victor Kramer (Louisville,
KY: Fons Vitae) 299-340.
"The
Polygamy Problem," rev. of The Secret Lives of Saints:
Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect,
by Daphne Bramham, in The Vancouver Sun (March 29,
2008) D10.
2007
Rev. of Thomas Merton: An Introduction,
by William H. Shannon. Victor Kramer, ed., The Merton
Annual (Louisville: Fons Vitae) 410-13.
2006
"Pastoral Care in the 21st Century,” in
Michael Schwartzentruber, ed., The Emerging Christian
Way (Kelowna, BC: Wood Lake/Copperhouse) 219-32.
"Pilgrimage
- it takes time," in Topic (September) 1. See also
www.vancouver.anglican.ca/News/tabid/27/ctl/ViewArticle/ArticleId/351/mid/486/Default.aspx
2004
"Finding ‘the great compassion, mahakaruna’:
Thomas Merton as Trans-cultural Pioneer,” in Angus Stuart,
ed., The World in My Bloodstream: Thomas Merton’s
Universal Embrace. Papers from the 2002 Oakham Conference
of the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain & Ireland
(Abergavenny, Wales: Three Peaks Press) 54-65.
2003
"Thomas Merton, the Holocaust and the Eclipse of Difference,”
in Beatrice Bruteau, ed., Merton and Judaism: Holiness
in Words / Recognition, Repentance and Renewal (Louisville:
Fons Vitae) 83-103. (See also Karl A. Plank, “An Open
Letter to Donald Grayston,” 105-08.)
"Antisemitism in a Russian spiritual classic: The Pilgrim’s
Tale.” Spiritus 3, 110-26 (article accessible
at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/spiritus/toc/scs3.1.html).
"Thomas Merton: Spiritual Fake?” rev. of The
Death of Thomas Merton: A Novel, by Paul Hourihan.The
Merton Seasonal 28.4 (Winter) 25-26.
Works in progress
“Thomas Merton and the Noon-day Demon: The Camaldoli
Correspondence.” An article first, then a book on Merton’s
attempts in the mid-1950s to obtain an authorized transfer
from the Abbey of Gethsemani to the Sacro Eremo (the
hermit village) of the Monastery of Camaldoli in Italy.
"Jesus Lama: Thomas Merton in Asia." Popular book
based on my 2000-01 retracing of Merton's journey of 1968.
"Beyond the Shadow and the Disguise: A Companion to Thomas
Merton's Asian Journal. Academic book aimed at making
The Asian Journal more accessible.
An article, so far untitled, using Arthur Cohen’s hermeneutic
(in The Tremendum) of subscension for a
reading of Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces
“Stranger, bystander, marginal man: exile and homecoming
in Thomas Merton”—written version of presentations
for the Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland
(2004), the Thomas Merton Society of Canada (2006) and Spiritual
Directors International (2007).
"The Holy Man: Conversations with a Painting, in Search
of the Father.”
The painting in question is my personal icon, a reproduction
of which you will find on the home page.
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